~ Harper’s Weekly, January 1865

Obviously I have been eating the wrong kinds of salad

I decided to play 17th century death roulette. I immediately died of Lethargy. This is not surprising

~ The Pastime Moving Picture Show, 1913

Latest Edison Fire-Proof Kinescope! Pretty women in bathing suits! What more could you want?

~ The Myrtle Reed Year Book, 1911

~ Mansfield Advertiser, Mansfield, Penn., June 24, 1914

Finally a use for all those dead flies you've been saving!

~ The Psychology of Childhood, Edgar James Swift, 1930

~ "How Men Become Insane", The Moral Reformer and Teacher on the Human Constitution, March 1836

~ The Des Moines Register, November 14, 1952

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~ Martine's Hand-Book of Etiquette, and Guide to True Politeness, by Arthur Martine, 1866

~ New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority, 1962

– What Will I Wear? by Helen Diehl Olds, 1961

“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

~ Howard Zinn

~ The American Pictorial Home Book, or Housekeeper’s Encyclopedia, by Mrs. Harriet Almaria Baker Suddoth, 1883

~ Your Highway ABC Book, by Jay H. Williams, 1935

~ The Handbook of the Man of Fashion, by the author of "Etiquette for Gentlemen, 1847

~ The Pleasures of Ignorance, by Robert Lynd, 1921